Husband for a Year

Husband for a Year

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Stefanie had been the ideal temporary wife to powerful Gabe Wainwright. Only, now that their one-year contract was up, he found himself strangely reluctant to stop being her husband....

Stefanie knew Gabe was a man of his word, and he'd stuck to the in-name-only deal to the letter. But how she wished he hadn't! Still, maybe it wasn't too late to negotiate a new wedding contract--this time, forever!

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Rebecca Winters's Bio

Rebecca Winters, an American writer and mother of four,
lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. When she was 17, she went to boarding school
in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she learned to speak French and met girls from
all over the world. Upon returning to the U.S., Rebecca developed her love of
languages when she earned her B.A. in secondary education, history, French,
and Spanish from the University of Utah and did postgraduate work in Arabic.

Because of her studies overseas, Rebecca decided to become
a teacher and studied French and history at her alma mater in Utah. For the
past 15 years, she's taught junior-high and high-school French and history,
and says she got into serious writing almost by accident.

"I went through a back door to begin my writing career,"
she says. "In the first place, I never liked to write anything 
I only wrote mandatory papers for school. If anyone had told me I would become
a writer, let alone love it, I would have laughed and dismissed the notion as
absolutely absurd and preposterous.

"Having said that, I did write letters to my parents
while I was away at boarding school when I was 17. My mother kept them and one
day, after I had become a mother for the second time, she sent me all my old
letters and asked me to write my memories from them for posterity. At the time
I thought she was insane, but because I adore my mother I did as she asked.

"By the time Id finished sorting through all
those teenage thoughts, observations and opinions, the seeds of a story had
begun to form in my mind. The seed eventually became a novel and was published
in 1979. It was called The Loving Season, published under the name Rebecca
Burton. Naturally, it takes place in Switzerland and France.

"As soon as I finished that novel, I found myself wanting
to start another novel entitled By Love Divided, a World War II romance.
A few years later, Harlequin bought a novel, Blind to Love, a story that
takes place in Kenya. Its been a love affair ever since.

"I guess the moral of the story is, never underestimate
a mothers intuition!"

As Rebecca has kept writing, her talents have not gone unrecognized.
She has won the National Readers' Choice Award, the Romantic Times Reviewers
Choice Award, and has been named Utah Writer of the Year. Right now, Rebecca
is working her way toward her 50th novel for Harlequin. She welcomes visitors to her web site.